General Guidelines and Online Submission

Note: The manuscript portal will open only from the 30th of September.

EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE: November 10th, 2016

The Scientific Committee of the European Association of Social Psychology invites submissions of proposals for symposiums, blitz presentations, and posters to be presented at the 18th General Meeting, 5-8 July 2017, in Granada. We welcome proposals on all topics of social psychology.

We will start to accept submissions of proposals on the 30th of September 2016.

All submissions should be completed starting from the 30th of September 2016 and no later than the 10th of November, 24h GMT, 2016 via the submission portal. Abstracts cannot be submitted by fax, hard copy or e-mail.

Submissions that include empirical data can only refer to studies for which the data has already been gathered and is analyzed. Abstracts referring to studies that have not yet been concluded will not be considered for evaluation.

Please note that it is possible to be the presenting author for only one abstract (talk or poster), not counting being symposium convenor or discussant. Symposium convenors are responsible for verifying that presenting authors in their symposium are not presenting authors in other submissions.

It is not possible to be convenor or co/convenor of more than one symposium.

It is, however, possible to be a co-author on more than one presentation and to be both presenting author, symposium convenor, and discussant in a symposium.

It is the author's responsibility to submit a correct abstract; accepted abstracts will be reproduced as submitted, including possible errors.

The author/s are requested to submit their abstract under the desired format of the presentation (symposium, blitz presentation or poster). However, the Scientific Committee will make the final decision on the presentation format.

Presenting authors of accepted abstracts must register early for the conference, the deadline for this will be specified on the conference website. Presentations by unregistered presenting authors will be excluded from the program.

When submitting your proposal, please be prepared to attend the full 4 days of the meeting. No requests for changes to the program schedule can be accommodated.

If a presenting author is unable to attend the meeting, the presenting author must contact the scientific committee in writing to either withdraw the abstract or propose a substitute speaker who is not already a presenting author of another paper.

The submission will be acknowledged. If your submission was not completed and needs to be re-submitted you will be notified. Authors are responsible for keeping their email address active until they have received feedback about the submission.

The corresponding author will receive all correspondence concerning the submission and is responsible for informing the other authors of the status of the submission in case of symposiums.

Submissions should include a title and abstract (all in English, see details in the following sections).

The title must be concise and clearly describe the content of the work (in sentence case letters).

Abstracts must be ready for online publication, if accepted.

No mention of any information revealing the submitter’s identity or institution is permitted in the title and the abstract.

The abstract should clearly indicate whether the talk proposed is a theoretical or an empirical talk:

For theoretical talks, abstracts should clearly and briefly state the theoretical contribution of the work, the model proposed, and how it relates to existing models in the same area of study.

For empirical talks, abstracts must indicate the background, the goals of the study or studies, methods used, the most important results, and the most important conclusions. For empirical talks, abstracts must refer to data that is already collected and analyzed. Abstracts referring to studies that have not yet been concluded will not be considered.

All submissions will be double blind reviewed by external reviewers and final decisions will be made by the scientific committee. Submissions will be evaluated on two broad criteria: (1) the scientific quality and overall clarity of the submission (soundness of the findings and appropriateness of theory and methodology), (2) the relevance of the research (contribution to social psychological theorizing, applied value, and/or timeliness).

Selection among high quality submissions will also be determined by the general goals of achieving a diverse and well-balanced program.

Symposiums group 4 to 5 presentations in total, including a possible discussant, on a common topic. Please note that all presentations will be allotted the same time (20 minutes, including questions and discussion), irrespective of how many presentations are included in the symposiums (symposiums can last 80 or 100 minutes).

Symposium submissions are made by the chair of the symposium, who will be the corresponding author. Symposiums submissions must include one abstract describing the overall goals of the symposiums and one abstract for each talk included in the symposiums (except for potential discussants).

When submitting:

1. You will need to indicate:

Your name, your affiliation and email address.

The name, affiliation of a co-chair, if present (who will not be a corresponding author)

2. You will specify which one of the following topics best describes the topic of the symposium [1]

Attitudes, emotion and motivation

Group processes

Intergroup relations

Interpersonal processes

Social cognition

Self and Identity

You will need the following information:

3. A title, with a maximum of 15 words, for the proposed symposium.

4. An abstract with a maximum of 250 words.

5. A short version of the abstract (maximum 40 words).

6. A selection of a minimum of 3 and a maximum of 5 keywords from a list.

7. For each presentation

The name and affiliation of the presenter (or discussant if relevant), including the email address, and the name, affiliation of the co-authors

A title, with a maximum of 15 words.

An abstract with a maximum of 250 words.

Information about the number of studies and the number of recruited participants

A short version of the abstract 40 words.

8. Finally the desired order of appearance

Should the symposiums be rejected by the scientific committee, the individual abstracts will be reviewed as independent submissions and still have the chance of making it into the program.

The symposiums chair is responsible for certifying that all speakers in their symposiums have registered for the conference. Presentations by non-registered speakers will be excluded from the program.

Although the same individual can be a co-organizer of, or a discussant in, more than one symposium, please be aware that this might play a role in the selection decisions. If hard decisions need to be made, including as many people as possible in the program is an important criterion.

Submissions will be evaluated on the basis of the long abstract. Only the short abstract will be published in the program book.

A blitz presentation is a short 5 minute presentation in which authors present around 5 slides or a poster in prezi [2] format in front of a seated audience. Blitz presentations will be grouped around a common theme and will be held in parallel sessions with the symposiums. Time for discussion will be provided at the end of each session. Blitz presentations can contain all types of research, but this new submission type is especially suitable for presenting single studies on novel topics, new data for discussion, replication studies, and multi-study papers using a well-known methodology.

When submitting:

1. You will need to indicate:

Your name, your affiliation and email address.

The name, affiliation of your co-authors

2. You will specify which one of the following topics best describes the topic of your abstract[1]:

Attitudes, Emotion and motivation

Group processes

Intergroup relations

Interpersonal processes

Social cognition

Self and Identity

You will need the following information:

3. A title, with a maximum of 15 words, for the proposed presentation.

4. An abstract with a maximum of 250 words.

5. Information about the number of studies and participants

6. A short version of the abstract (maximum 40 words).

7. A selection of a minimum of 3 and a maximum of 5 keywords from a list.

Submissions will be evaluated on the basis of the long abstract. Only the short abstract will be published in the program book.

[1] Note that the scientific committee reserves the right to change the area in which the proposal will be evaluated.[2] Prezi is a software that employs a zooming user interface which allows users to zoom in and out of their presentation content. In this way, a poster can be presented zooming in on the relevant parts during the presentation.

About the General Meeting of the EASP

The General Meeting of the European Association of Social Psychology is one of the largest and most important meetings of social psychologists, which take place in Europe every 3 years. European and non European researches are invited to present their work about a wide range of topics in Social Psychology including: Attitudes, Emotion and Motivation, Group processes, Intergroup Relations, Interpersonal Processes, Social Cognition, and Self and Identity. It is sponsored by the EASP.